Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, President of the Board of ELIAMEP, Professor Maria Gavouneli, Director General of ELIAMEP and Professor Panayotis Tsakonas, Head of the Foreign Policy & Security Programme at ELIAMEP along with Mr Plamen Tonchev, Head of the Asia Unit at the Institute for International Economic Relations welcomed a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), headed by FENG Zhongping, Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of European Studies, CASS. The delegation also included ZHANG Jinling, Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Department of European Society and Culture, Institute of European Studies, CASS, HE Zhigao, Director and Associate Research Fellow of the Department of European Politics, Institute of European Studies, CASS, HAN Meng, Deputy Director and Assistant Research Fellow of the Central and Eastern European Department, Institute of European Studies, CASS, KONG Tianping, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of European Studies, CASS and ZHU Rui, Assistant Research Fellow of the Institute of European Studies, CASS. The discussion covered all major issues of international interest.